What’s more fun than watching Oscar nominees perform? Having kids reenact the scenes, supposedly. Prepare yourself to either be amused or disturbed by a new video put out by CineFix:

Coincidentally, it seems, People came out with their own “Watch What Happens When Kids Reenact the Oscar Nominees” video at nearly the same time as CineFix. Theirs isn’t able to be embedded here, but I can show you the photo they used on Facebook to promote their version:

The two videos are terribly similar, both full of wigs and mustaches worn by small people struggling to get out big words, as well as essentially opting out of reenacting 12 Years a Slave. The most notable difference in my eyes is CineFix’s version included a rifle for Captain Phillips, while People’s mimicked alcohol for American Hustle.

A sampling of comments about the videos from around the web show some viewers found the kids to be hilarious, while others are somewhat horrified:

Youtube: Great job! The kids are really cute! They should show this during the ceremony!!!

Gawker: Most of my friends won’t even let their kids even hold their fingers like guns—seeing that kid holding a gun shocked the hell out of me.

Facebook: Why is it funny to have children behave like sexy/drunk/stupid adults? Why can’t kids just be kids? They have a lifetime to grow up. Society puts children in adult roles for the world to see, and along come pedophiles, and then society says they are wrong & shouldn’t treat a child like that (which is true!) & we want them punished. It’s just wrong.

Well, when you put it that way, my hide is feeling a bit chapped by these videos. You see, recently I wrote about a series of movies Shirley Temple starred in called Baby Burlesks that I found to be cringeworthy. In one flick the then 3-year-old tot shimmies and shakes in a ‘bar’ of milk-chugging baby soldiers before telling those vying for her affection with lollipops, “I’m expensive.”

A few of our commenters agreed with me the scene was a little disturbing, but others insisted what I saw as inappropriateness was more a matter of taste evolving over time. “This was almost 100 years ago. Things were not politically correct,” one person wrote. Another added, “Looking at it through a 2013 lens doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. If you want to start listing stuff from 100 years ago that we find distasteful, you are going to be pretty busy.”

They have a point, I concede, but as evidenced by the pair of Oscar movie reenactments that popped up today it doesn’t appear we’ve come all that far.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m a prude when it comes to kids. How about we leave the booze, the guns and the innuendos to those at least old enough to drive a car? Not only did today’s videos cross where I draw the line, I just don’t think they’re even funny.

I have watched these videos in YouTube. They are awesome! The kids are cute and they have acted very well. Happy to know that they are the Oscar movies. They really deserves it. Hope we could see more trends in video production field.

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